hardest angle to draw

Wp · Post by Wp » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:26 pm

What view do you find hardest to draw with people? I've come across countless tutorials that say frontal and profile are the easiest to draw, but for me, 3/4ths view is easiest. I recently re-realized that I suck at frontal view. Am I weird?

BERSERKERCREW · Post by **BERSERKERCREW** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:35 pm

from below looking up that chin and ear thing is maddening.

Warofwinds · Post by **Warofwinds** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:37 pm

I agree with BERSERKERCREW. Any angle that requires you to draw the nose from below is the most annoying. With the front view, it never looks right to me until I've colored and shaded it in photoshop. Without any shadows though, drawing a good face from the front angle would be damn hard.

-Kez

Genesis_13 · Post by **Genesis_13** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:45 pm

I agree with the angle of Berserkscrew. I'm fine with the nose, and the ears are annoying but attainable, but for the life of me I just can't draw a chin from below. GAH!

Actually, a 3/4 angle from below is the hardest. I can't even draw one STRAIGHT.

Easiest, anyway, is a 3/4 front view. Even profiles are hard.

Leko · Post by **Leko** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:46 pm

I dislike drawing from above OR below. The noses always come out uber long and pointy when I try. It's easiest for me to draw profiles.

Driving Without Pants · Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:18 pm

I'm going to have to agree with everyone here and say that a 3/4 isometric view is the easiest to draw. Hardest? Anything from below or above (below is harder though.)

Johndisko · Post by **Johndisko** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:23 pm

i say them 89 degree angles are the hardest. its soooo close to the 90 degree, but its not. you know what i mean?

-jd

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:26 pm

I'd say 180 degrees...cos then your paper's on the roof and I can't even reach it.

Wp · Post by Wp » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:29 pm

Geez, I knew it! 3/4ths is easiest to draw.

I have problems with looking down from above, but not as much looking up from below. I want to draw the position when somehow has his head down and is looking up at you, but it never ends up right.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:45 pm

Head tilted backward is probably the hardest angle to draw from. It's not one you see very often.

Zhan_Dvega · Post by **Zhan_Dvega** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:17 pm

I, for some reason, find it incredibly uncomfortable drawing anyone facing to the left.

Kensou X · Post by **Kensou X** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:22 pm

that sounds more like a psychiactric condition

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:27 pm

Hmm... I'd say...

From the back at a 1/4, looking down from above at roughly a 53 degree angle. Oh, and there's twelve people in the frame, and they're all wearing capri pants and white cotton shirts with long sleeves that alternate in their rolled-up-ness. Never quite got the hang of that one...

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:35 pm

Chin.

From.

Below.

Though I've seen terrible things happen to noses with frontal views.

Zhan_Dvega · Post by **Zhan_Dvega** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:37 pm

I, for some reason, find it incredibly uncomfortable drawing anyone facing to the left.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:41 pm

The through-the-floor-at-their-feet perspective has always eluded me.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:43 pm

Chin raised. Pain. In. Ze. Arse.

However! Chin raised for animation style furry critters are actually kinda' easy - no chin to worry about, huzzah!

Zhan_Dvega wrote:I, for some reason, find it incredibly uncomfortable drawing anyone facing to the left.

Twenty minute double post, how peculiar.

NotoriousMEQ · Post by **NotoriousMEQ** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:03 pm

Directly above and directly below (with a skirt??) are easier than other above and below angles, but yeah, for the most part, they're the hardest. I can't do anything but the directly above (bird's eye) without a reference, even if it's a star wars action figure. And from below at an angle is probably harder than above, because of the nose and chin thing.

I loooove profiles. I've heard they're the hardest of the 'level' set, but I really have to remind myself not to draw them all the time.

Soap Soaperson · Post by **Soap Soaperson** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:12 pm

Blah. Drawing things with that vertical axis perspective is on my crappity-crap-crap-I-haet-it list. I love it when it's done right though, so bah!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:51 pm

Don't know... to me various angles don't seem to be a problem, although maybe they don't look to others as correct as they look to me.
I was practising weird angles a lot on boring classes. To me, various body positions are more a problem.
Oh, yeah... a low front angle can be a problem, not the face but chest.